Australian high-jumper Nicola McDermott, 24, took home silver after competing in the women’s high jump in Tokyo, but God is of greater value to her. “Jumping with the peace that you are loved can take you to heights you have never seen before,” she tweeted following her Olympic success, adding the hashtag, “#JumpingforJesus”. Ms McDermott…
A permanent memorial honouring those who died during the pandemic, grieving families, hospital staff and the community has been unveiled in Tallaght University Hospital. Fr John Kelly, Director of Pastoral Care at the hospital said of the ‘Heart Memorial’: “There’s a lot of people who just want to forget what has happened over the last…
Fr Neal Carlin is being remembered for leading people to God along “stepping stones” he laid throughout his long ministry. Fr Carlin, of Fahan, Co. Donegal, died Friday, August 6, having established a number of institutions dedicated to spirituality and fighting addiction in his local region. He set up the Columba Community, as well as…
Italian police announced Monday that they have identified the sender of a letter addressed to Pope Francis containing three bullets. While the police haven’t released the name of the suspect, they said August 9 that it is a French citizen “already known to Vatican security, with whom the Carabinieri of Milan will now coordinate to…
While the weather doesn’t support it at the moment, the ever-shortening summer implores us to get the grills out, writes Jason Osborne Summer’s close is always somewhat anxiety-producing as you realise how little time you have left for all of the things you wanted and planned to do during the summer. While the current weather…
Personal profile Sr Máire Bríd of the Drumcondra Redemptoristines has followed God’s call to the very margins of human experience: enclosed, monastic life. It wasn’t a step she took lightly. Asked whether it took courage at the time, she responds, “It certainly did”. “It certainly did [require courage] because it was going against the grain.…
With ongoing construction guided by the vision of ‘God’s architect’ Antoni Gaudí, Barcelona’s La Sagrada Família is already one of God’s finest houses. The project was designed in 1882 by another man, Francisco de Paula del Villar, and his plan was more in-keeping with the prevailing architecture of the time. Neo-Gothic dreams saw ogival windows,…
A new study has estimated that 3,462 Christians have been killed in Nigeria in the first 200 days of 2021. This works out as 17 Christian murders every day in Africa’s most populous country. The study was conducted by the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety), which is based in Onitsha…
Ireland’s gold medallist rowers Fintan McCarthy, Paul O’Donovan, and bronze medallist Emily Hegarty were welcomed back to Skibbereen “with great pride”, according to Aughadown parish priest, Fr Donal Cahill. Great pride “There’s great pride there for them,” Fr Cahill said of the Olympic champions, continuing, “there was a bit of a homecoming last night for…
An Irish priest established St Simon’s Church, which recently burned to the ground in Glasgow and has been mourned extensively by locals and around the world. Fr Daniel Gallagher oversaw the construction of the famed church, which began life as St Peter’s Church, in 1852. A fire consumed the building in the early hours of…